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******* JANN Wenner, head honcho of Rolling Stone and Us Weekly, is trying to tighten the screws and lower the compensation of some of his top people - but the tactic may be backfiring. Yesterday, Charlie McNiff, Us Weekly's longtime associate publisher, resigned after failing to come to terms with Wenner on a new contract. His old one expired in February. McNiff did not comment. A Wenner spokesman acknowledged, "We couldn't come to terms on a new contract agreement and decided to part ways." MORE ONLINE 2. New YorkNew Money By Mark Fass 4/9/07 http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/30354/ Even from a corner office on the seventeenth floor, there’s not a lot of blue sky visible from the Cond? Nast building. You mostly look at a rather grim crowd of older, taller office buildings. But blue sky is all Joanne Lipman says she’s been seeing for the twenty months that the new business magazine she’s editing, Portfolio, has been gestating. It’s due on the newsstands next week. With a reported budget of $125 million, it’s the most expensive launch Cond? Nast has ever done. And given the trend of advertising moving from print to the Web, it’s possibly the last brand-new, big-time journalistically ambitious magazine ever. She’s promising something original, something worthy of the inventor of the Wall Street Journal’s profitable, colorful consumer-lifestyle sections. “Everything I’ve ever done, anything I’ve ever worked on creating, I always start by not comparing,” she says. “If you’re comparing, then you’re just repeating. The entire reason to do this magazine is to ask, If you’re starting business coverage right now, in 2007, how do you do it? That’s the whole fun of it. It’s blue sky.” But given the dark cloud over the industry right now, a lot of her competitors are hoping that Lipman will fail—the Schadenfreude Squad, Portfolio deputy editor Amy Stevens, who’s also from the Journal, calls them. Sour journalists rooting for a fall from grace. Between the magazine’s frenzy of big-ticket hiring (75 people, from places like the Times, the Journal, Time, and Vanity Fair) and her reputation as being, as Stevens delicately puts it, “exacting,” there’s a lot of resentment out there. How could Cond? Nast do this now? Just who does Lipman think she is? In 2004, Cond? Nast tested two magazines: an art-and-culture project proposed by then–editorial director James Truman and a lush yet manly business magazine that the suits at the company thought was a good idea. And, according to the company’s chairman, Si Newhouse, the data “showed that there was the potential for a magazine that covered business intelligently in a style we were ready to bring to the table.” Truman’s idea apparently didn’t do as well, and by January 2005, he quit the company. Lipman had lunch with Newhouse in June and was hired by August. MORE ONLINE
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Portfolio editor in chief Joanne Lipman "does not want for confidence," notes Mark Fass in a story in New York magazine this week. In the article, Lipman says of her stint at The Wall Street Journal and the launch of its Weekend Journal section: "Every single thing we were doing was completely brand new….I reinvented the wheel." As for the naysayers who doubt the upcoming launch on April 16, Portfolio deputy editor Amy Stevens has a name for them — "The Schadenfreude Squad." Cond? Nast Publications chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. tells New York: "Launches involve a considerable amount of risk. It's something to get excited about. The outlook is favorable, but life is a gamble." (WWD is also owned by Cond? Nast Publications.) But he stresses the company is in it for the long haul, adding of Portfolio: "There's not, in our thinking, a time limit on it. We're going to make it work."
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In Style has tapped Maria Eliason as its new executive director, international fashion, ad sales. She will oversee the magazine's international fashion advertising and report to associate publisher Lisa Jordan Helms. Eliason, who took up her new position on Thursday, joined In Style from Vanity Fair, where she held the same title. Eliason spent seven years at the Cond? Nast title; prior to that she was the fashion and jewelry manager at both Mirabella and Marie Claire. In Style group publisher Lynette Harrison said Eliason will help strengthen In Style's "ties in the domestic and European fashion communities." MORE ONLINE
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The choice of La Grenouille for Thursday night's dinner party for new House & Garden design director Wendy Goodman was no accident. "When [editor in chief] Dominique [Browning] and I first met, I told her about how, when I went to La Grenouille as a fashion editor, I was completely intrigued by this building, a former carriage house," recalled Goodman. That curiosity grew into a story in New York magazine about the building and restaurant's storied history that "changed my life, and changed my career," she said. "I thought, this is exactly what I want to do. I want to explore the way people live and why they live the way they do. Last night I was looking at that room and thought, who would have ever thought?" Conversation among guests, who included architect Richard Meier and designers Robert Couturier and Miles Redd, touched on how the changing media landscape affects their work. "I think there's really a feeling that we're on the verge of a sea change in the way that we show projects, because there's so much information and alternative media now," said Goodman. "Everything's changing really quickly, and it's a wonderful challenge to the magazine, how to present and shoot stories." MORE ONLINE
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...that he wants you to send some great gigs his way. Internships ...that Yoga + Joyful Living is looking for talented, enthusiastic, full-time, year-long interns to start in June. Duties include general administration tasks; researching stories, sources, and potential contributors; brainstorming story ideas; reporting and writing assignments based on skill level; and much more. Our core staff is based at the Himalayan Institute, a non-profit organization and long-time leader in the field of yoga, meditation, spirituality, and holistic health, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. We offer our magazine interns a free residential program (valued at $3,000) that includes room and (vegetarian) board, along with fun perks like free, ongoing daily yoga classes, evening lectures on topics ranging from the Yoga Sutras to ayurveda, and community-oriented activities like satsang and kirtan. And, of course, the beautiful outdoors. REQUIREMENTS: A bachelor’s degree in English, journalism, communications, writing, or comparable experience; superb writing skills; creative imagination; impeccable organizational skills; and a passion for the subjects we cover: environmentalism, spirituality, social action, yoga, and healthy living. To apply, submit a one-page resume; five double-spaced pages of your best writing; a one-to three-page letter explaining why you want to be an intern at Yoga + Joyful Living, how your classes and experiences have prepared you for this internship, and what you hope to contribute to our magazine and the Himalayan Institute community. Also include your level of experience and interest in yoga, meditation, and healthy living. Then write a two-page personal response to Pandit Rajmani Tigunait’s article, “How to Live A Truly Joyful Life” (at www.yogaplusextras.org), which captures Yoga + Joyful Living’s editorial mission. Send applications to: sanderson@yogaplus.org. No phone calls, please. (OK to mention Ed)
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